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Kristina Marie Darling

Kristina Marie Darling is the author of seventeen books, which include Melancholia, Petrarchan, & a forthcoming hybrid genre collection called Fortress. Her awards include fellowships from Yaddo, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, as well as grants from the Kittredge Fund & the Elizabeth George Foundation.

02/10/2016

The multiple modes of the erasure and self-erasure of women’s voices sit heavy with me this morning. I’ve read a beautiful and daring text entitled Women and Ghosts, by Kristina Marie Darling, which is part essay and part prose-poem, all experimental, where line-throughs, footnotes, multiple narrative lines, and alternating gradients of text are used to…

Heather Fowler is the author of Suspended Heart and People with Holes. She received her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University, and has been nominated for both the storySouth Million Writers Award and Sundress Publications Best of the Net.

11/09/2015

In the throes of my divorce a couple years ago, I heard Elizabeth Bishop in an old radio interview pointing out that we humans get divorced all the time. She was answering a question about the damage divorce might inflict on children. My son was 5 at the time and I pulled my car over, trembling,…

Zannah Camp is a writer, a deep thinker and an actual mom. She survived being outnumbered by clergy in her childhood home. Zannah makes a living as a political communications expert for a prominent non-profit. Her personal writing has appeared on online dating sites, xojane.com and zines in and around her home in exquisite Oakland, CA. An alum of the Yale Writers Conference 2015, Zannah is at work on a short story collection.

03/24/2015

Sometimes an extraordinary book lands on your doorstep and you’re grateful to be astonished again. Kristina Maria Darling’s The Sun & the Moon is a beauty to behold. A surprising, masterfully written long prose poem that reads like a novel, it weaves a story of a marriage deconstructed in a fantastical, surreal setting, whose strangeness is…

09/29/2014

Music for another life is a collaborative text, a print book with color images (shot by Max Avi Kaplan) and black serif-font text (composed by Kristina Marie Darling) on facing pages. Image and text dance and sway in the reader’s imagination. But taken separately, what work does the set of images perform? And what work…

Trish Harris is an independent curator, writer, and artist currently teaching in Michigan. She edits the Pea River Journal and curated and designed the Remaking Moby-Dick project. Her poems, stories, and micromemoirs have appeared in McSweeney’s online tendency, Cortland Review, and Brevity. At Twitter, she is @trishlet.

09/15/2014

Leah Umansky: Reading Vow, is like peering into someone’s secret past. A woman is said to be married. Her fiancé dies. She is left, bereft and almost-helpless. It reminds me much of Jane Eyre (for what would Jane be without her Rochester?). On the other hand, it reminds me of Charlotte Bronte herself and the…

Leah Umansky’s first book of poems, Domestic Uncertainties, is out now by BlazeVOX [Books.] Her Mad-Men inspired chapbook, Don Dreams and I Dream is forthcoming from Kattywompus Press in early 2014. She has been a contributing writer for BOMB Magazine’s BOMBLOG and Tin House, a poetry reviewer for The Rumpus and a live twitterer for the Best American Poetry Blog. She also hosts and curates the COUPLET Reading Series.

02/14/2014

I have been trying to write a book review of this X Marks the Dress: A Registry for months. I’ve been nervous about writing this book review. This is a complicated book, intentionally and fruitfully complicated, but rewarding. It’s an incredible mash-up of voices, perspectives, forms. Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess have written a…

Brandi Wells is editor of Black Warrior Review and a web editor at Hobart. She is the author of Please Don’t Be Upset and the forthcoming This Boring Apocalypse. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Sycamore Review, Fairy Tale Review, Forklift Ohio, Indiana Review and other journals.